[328]. His country residence was St. Osyth’s Priory, Essex.
[329]. She died on 23rd June, 1746. (Gentleman’s Magazine, 1746, p. 328.)
[330]. Indenture of 12th February, 1738–9, between “Philip Carter of Tunstal, Suffolk, clerk, and Bessy, his wife (widow of Frederick late Earl of Rochford, deceased, and now commonly called Countess Dowager of Rochford), William Henry, Earl of Rochford, eldest son and heir of the said Frederick by the said Bessy, and Sir John Colleton, of Exmouth, Bt., brother and heir at law of Elizabeth Colleton alias Johnson, deceased, and James Mallors”; purporting to be a lease “for a year to vest the possession of and concerning all that capital messuage or mansion house situate on the south side of Great Queen Street where the said Frederick did lately dwell, which said messuage or mansion house was heretofore the house of Richard, Earl Rivers, and then called or known by the name of Rivers House.” (Middlesex Registry Memorials, 1739, I., 450–1.)
[331]. Lincoln’s Inn Fields, p. 174.
[332]. FitzGerald, Life of Mrs. Catherine Clive, p. 84.
[333]. Boswell, Life of Johnson, Vol. IV., pp. 7, 243.
[335]. “March 31, 1638–9.... Direct your letter to be left with Lord Conway’s maid in Queen Street, so it will come more speedily to me, since I am very often with the Lord Admiral [Earl of Northumberland], whose house is next to Lord Conway’s, as I think you know” (Calendar State Papers, Domestic, 1638–9, p. 630).
[337]. Clarendon’s History of the Great Rebellion, Book III., par. 228.